Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 134
He has made me bark of his tree!” cried the voice again.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: make, cry · To what, where: bark, me, voice
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iktomi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tree | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bark | nmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 cried | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect | Iktomi | bark of Iktomi's tree | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary bark=Product | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Iktomi not said here | the voice | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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